Syfy has signed Jim Uhls (Fight Club, Jumper) to adapt Robert Charles Wilson’s Hugo Award-winning novel Spin into a six-hour miniseries produced by Rob Morrow. The book centers on a young scientist trying to save humanity from the impending apocalypse of a mysterious, impenetrable cloud that has enveloped the entire Earth, blacking out the stars.

This is a potential miniseries franchise for Syfy; Spin, originally published in 2005, is the first of a trilogy in the best-selling series that also includes Axis and Vortex.

There's a bit more to the concept than just the membrane blocking out the sky, will be cool to see if they can get it to the screen.